Ann Lurie offers matching challenge grant for research
The location of Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago will allow greater research and clinical collaboration with future campus neighbors, including Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, its Prentice Women’s Hospital and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.
To ensure the necessary space and facilities to foster collaborative pediatric research, Ann Lurie has issued a special challenge to the Chicago community. Her $100 million gift to Children’s Memorial includes a $20 million matching challenge grant designed to generate philanthropic support specifically for the hospital’s research enterprise.
In challenging the community to collectively contribute $20 million for pediatric research facilities at the Streeterville campus by August 2010, Lurie has pledged to match all major gifts, dollar for dollar. This challenge offers the potential of $40 million to expand and relocate research facilities.
This funding is essential to advancing the mission of Children’s Memorial and fostering breakthrough scientific discoveries that will improve the lives of children and their families.
Lurie’s matching challenge presents those who designate gifts of $50,000 or more for relocation of research facilities with an exceptional opportunity to double their gifts and maximize their impact, helping to prevent, treat and cure the diseases that threaten the well-being of children and adults.
If you are interested in maximizing your major gift to pediatric research through the Lurie Matching Challenge Grant for Medical Research Facilities, please contact Alice Archabal at Children’s Memorial Foundation at 773.880.3756 or aarchabal@childrensmemorial.org.